Mario Kart Specifically? It's mindless fun especially with friends! It's kind of like a MP Astro Bot of Racers! The graphics etc aren't great, but the smooothness, the the tracks and courses that can go up/down/indoors/outdoors/underwater and many more is brilliant in level design along with the maddening random power ups and ways for you to even trip up and block other people's races! The game takes you to the fun you had in childhood with video games! That's kind of the USP of all Nintendo games too! It's really hard to beat their creativity, level design and gameplay in most games! For Mario Kart - I don't think there's any major publisher doing similar game at all!

I love how even after so many years rdr2 is still the gold standard for open world game design

A brand new system is usually not easy to emulate.

Stupid pricing of games is probably why nintendo is doubling down on emulation. They know the system is easy to emulate, people will prefer that route over paying 90 bucks for their games Outside of collectors and hardcore nintendo fans I see this tanking because of the very high pricing of games. 90 usd lmao